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Cost to run a rice cooker in Vermont (August 2026 rates)
At 23.84¢ per kilowatt-hour — Vermont's average residential price in August 2026 — running a rice cooker costs $10.01 a year. That is 31% more than the national average of $7.63. Vermont's residential rate is up 7.9% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $9.28 to $10.01 a year.
- Per hour
- 6.7¢
- Per day of use
- 5.0¢
- Per month
- 83.4¢
- Per year
- $10.01
Assumption: 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year — 42 kWh a year. Full draw while heating, then a low-power keep-warm hold. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Vermont compares
Vermont pays 23.84¢/kWh, the 12th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $2.39 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same rice cooker costs $5.34 a year in Nevada and $19.82 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $14.47 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 21.77¢ | 76.2¢ | $9.14 |
| Michigan | 22.99¢ | 80.5¢ | $9.66 |
| Vermont | 23.84¢ | 83.4¢ | $10.01 |
| Connecticut | 24.51¢ | 85.8¢ | $10.29 |
| New Jersey | 24.61¢ | 86.1¢ | $10.34 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a rice cooker.
What else costs about the same in Vermont
Cutting the number down
- Keep-warm is a small draw that runs for hours. Switching it off once the rice is done is the only real lever here.
Questions
- How much does a rice cooker cost per month in Vermont?
- About 83.4¢ a month, assuming 700 W at a 40% duty cycle, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 23.84¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a rice cooker use?
- Roughly 42 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.28 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Vermont has the 12th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $7.63 a year.